20 Ware st,
Cambridge, Mass
   June 8, 1879
Dear Prof. Greene
                        I am not sure 
whether I have written to you 
that in the edition of my 
Young Folk’s History just printed 
for the blind + in the forthcoming 
edition for the Boston schools, 
the following passage is enclosed,
which will, I hope, be satisfactory 
to your judgement.   You are aware
of the disparity of making any 
extensive alteration in a  
schoolbook, especially in one 
where the narration flows 
continuously,  as in mine.
        I have also mentioned
on p. 226 “the [------] of Gen. ~~Greene~~
Nathaniel Greene”.
                        By truly yours
                        T.W. Higginson


In the edition of Young Folk’s History 
just printed for the blind, and 
in the forthcoming edition for 
the Boston schools, the following 
is one of the alterations At the 
foot of p. 208, after the notice
of Marion, this passage is in-
serted:
        “But he and his men 
proved themselves just as brave
in the open field, at the battle 
of Eutaw Springs, S. C. (1780).  In this 
Contest General Nathaniel Greene
was the commander, and defeat-
ed the British troops severely; and 
his whole campaign in the South 
was so successful that he after-
ward was considered second only
to Washignton among the 
Revolutionary Generals.”


[written vertically on the left side of the first page]


P.S.  In a new chronological table appended to the new edition, there is also a reference to Gen. G. as saving the army at the battle of Brandywine